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When they entered the little girl was sitting in her chemise in a little arm-chair at a table, having her dinner of broth which she was spilling all over her little chest.
Slender for her fifteen years, all that showed of her limbs outside the narrow sheath of her chemise were her bluish feet, as it were tattooed with coal, and her slight arms, the milky whiteness of which contrasted with the sallow tint of her face, already spoilt by constant washing with black soap.
The young girl, in her chemise, with her naked feet on the floor, moved about in the room.
Mouquette had tranquilly let down her breeches to dry her chemise.
Catherine, whose turn came first, had filled it with warm water; and she undressed herself tranquilly, took off her cap, her jacket, her breeches, and even her chemise, habituated to this since the age of eight, having grown up without seeing any harm in it.
When she was clean she went up the stairs quite naked, leaving her damp chemise and other garments in a heap on the floor.
She had ceased to hasten, and resumed her old custom of doing up her hair at the edge of her bed, while her arms, raised in the air, lifted her chemise to her thighs, and he, without his trousers, sometimes helped her, looking for the hairpins that she had lost.
Catherine, who had already taken off her jacket, hesitated, then took off her trousers also; and with naked arms and naked thighs, her chemise tied round her hips by a cord like a blouse, she began to push again.
you're making yourself comfortable!" said this woman, a lean widow of thirty, when she saw Catherine in her chemise.
Her narrow chemise, black as though dipped in ink, was sticking to her skin, and rising up to her waist with the movement of her thighs; it hurt her so that she had once more to stop her task.
Unable to go farther, she felt the need of taking off her chemise.
Then quickly, saying to herself that she would cover herself at the relay, she took off everything, the cord and the chemise, so feverishly that she would have torn off her skin if she could.
He shouted for her chemise to be brought, and seized the naked and unconscious girl in his arms, holding her as high as possible.
However, he was able to dip her chemise in the spring, and to bathe her face with it.
He dressed her, slipped on the chemise easily, but swore over the difficulty he had in getting on the trousers, for she could not help much.
He ate omelettes on farmhouse tables, poked his arm into damp beds, received the tepid spurt of blood-lettings in his face, listened to death-rattles, examined basins, turned over a good deal of dirty linen; but every evening he found a blazing fire, his dinner ready, easy-chairs, and a well-dressed woman, charming with an odour of freshness, though no one could say whence the perfume came, or if it were not her skin that made odorous her chemise.
Matrena Filimonovna called to one of these to ask her to dry a bath-sheet and a chemise that had fallen into the water, and Dolly entered into conversation with them.
As a matter of fact, under the square of black lace, you could see that in her hurry to change her dress she had rolled back the top of her simple chemise that was working up.
CHAPITRE VToute cette aventure n’avait pas duré une minute ; les blessures de Fabrice n’étaient rien ; on lui serra le bras avec des bandes taillées dans la chemise du colonel.
Il a donné sa chemise pour panser mon bras.
continua Ludovic en voyant sa chemise toute tachée de sang et des blessures serrées avec des mouchoirs, le porco s’est donc défendu ?
Meanwhile Marguerite called me up to her bed, asked me to open a cupboard, and pointed out a cap and a long chemise covered with lace, and said in a feeble voice:"I shall die as soon as I have confessed.